New Earth like Planet Discovered

[Clint]

Tell me what links can't be missing, tell me why they can't be missing, and tell me why no other possible permutations of evolution could possibly work, and you'll have yourself a leg to stand on.

Evolutionary links. If you stop a species from evolving by not allowing that species to migrate, then those links are broken, and the span of events has changed from what it should have been. For example, if ancient primates hadn't been able to migrate, we wouldn't exist.

They got wiped out, so of course their brain never developed any further. If they hadn't, then certain species of dinosaurs like the troodons and Baryonyx very possibly would have continued their trend of growing brain size and complexity. You don't know what would have happend, so you can't say anything about what could have been with the dinosaurs.

Modern reptiles tell what the brains of dinosaurs would have become. The crocodile is one of the oldest animals on the planet, and yet, it has only the old brain. The crocodile was around during the time of the dinosaurs, and yet, it's brain hasn't evolved. It doesn't know logic or reason. All it has are basic survival instincts.

If something as amazing as flight(another biological process we do not fully understand) could be duplicated multiple times throughout evolutionary history in multiple organism at different times and under different circumstances, why is the brain so much more special? Why, why, why? Answer.

Birds wouldn't know what to do with their wings if they didn't have a brain.

Neanderthals had the same brains as us, if not even more developed, and we still won the evolutionary struggle. There's a lot of things besides brain power that go into deciding which species becomes the dominant form in a particular niche, not just brains. And there's no reason to assume that a species would have to be the dominant lifeform to have intelligence, just because we happen to be on top now.

Who's to say that all the different primate species of humans didn't became the modern day human? You don't know what happened with the Neanderthals. They could have easily mated with other species of human. Also, it is safe to assume that the dominant life form is the most intelligent, because the most intelligent builds society focusing around itself, and dominates the entire planet. For example, humans run the earth.

Again, why? Why, why, why? You say things like Earth's exact atmosphere and exact climate are necessary for any form of intelligent life, and yet you give no reasons, nor any reasons why these things are non-duplicatable in the vastness of space.

Without earth's atmosphere, microorganisms can survive, but do you actually think that microorganisms are intelligent? There are basic elements that make up the structure of an organism, and those particular elements can't survive in just any atmosphere.

As far as Earth's position, we've already found planets that have the right position in relation to their sun, and we're only going to find more, so there's no reason to state as a matter of fact that Earth's position in the solar system is anything unique.

You also have to find a planet located at the same location of earth, orbiting around the same sized sun. If the sun was any bigger, we'd fry. If it was any smaller, we'd freeze.

The moon has nothing at all to do with Earth's magnetic field. Literally nothing. Earth's magnetic field is produced by the spinning of its metal core, not the Moon.

Yes it does. The magnetic field is produced by the spinning of the core, but the moon is what stabilizes it. You didn't think the moon's only purpose was to serve the tides, did you?